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The first Ilorin central mosque was founded in 1820 in the Agbarere Area, popularly known as "Ile-Elewa", under the leadership of Sheik Imam Muhammad Munab'bau. This was followed in 1835 when another central mosque was built at Idi-Ape during the reign of the first Emir of Ilorin, Abdus-salam.
For some time, Ilorin was a major center of the slave trade, described by Richard Henry Stone as the "largest slave market in that part of Africa". [4] Most Yorubas in Ilorin were still pagan, which lead to most being subjects to the Emir, who "had little social upheaval, who most secretly desired to free themselves, from the Fula". [5]
He initiated the renovation of Ilorin Central Mosque (constructed by his late father in 1979) to become a world class edifice. [12] Until he was redeployed to the University of Agriculture Makurdi, Benue State, the Emir had held sway as the Chancellor of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State for 14 years (2001-2015).
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Building constructed in 1788 (237 years ago) (), and established as a mosque in 1807 (218 years ago) (). Masjid al-Qudama Uitenhage, Eastern Cape South Africa: 1849 [58] It has been deduced that the mosque was a completed building by March 1849 Grey Street Mosque (Juma Mosque) Durban [59] South Africa: 1881 Soofie Masjid Butha Buthe Lesotho
The ribbed domes of the Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba served as models for later mosque buildings in the Islamic West of Al-Andalus and the Maghreb. At around 1000 AD, the Bab al-Mardum Mosque in Toledo was constructed with a similar, eight-ribbed dome, surrounded by eight other ribbed domes of varying design. [89]
Nearby, within the same citadel, is a rectangular building with massive walls marked by rounded buttresses and no windows. It has been tentatively identified as an archive or treasury. [40] The citadel would have included – in addition to his mausoleum – other buildings and amenities such as a mosque, bathhouse, barracks, and mint. The ...
In reality he led a team of royal architects and the buildings would have been collective works. [3] Sinan himself would have been occupied with the large building projects undertaken for the sultan. These were the Şehzade Mosque (1543–48), the Süleymaniye Mosque (1548–59), the Kirkçeşme waterworks (1561–65), the Büyükçekmece ...